@studentguy - Please take whatever E-R or any other school tells you about employment statistics with a “caveat emptor” (that is, buyer or consumer beware). Schools always will always report favorable placement statistics. I know many airline and corporate pilots (albeit, all in the US with FAA certificates not EASA licenses in Europe). None of them describe their road to the left seat of a jet airliner or corporate jet as being easy. Most took many years to get to those positions.
I am surprised EASA allows anyone with 200-300 hours to get an ATPL and fly a jet airliner. To my view, that is nowhere near sufficient. I read that the ATPL one gets after that amount of time is “frozen” until one reaches 1500 hours. Is there some type of restriction in what type of flying or operation one can conduct before reaching 1500 hours?
I wouldn’t get onto an Airbus or 737 flown by someone with only 200-300 hours. Europe in many ways tends to have tighter regulations than the US, so once again, I am surprised one can fly on a scheduled airline with such low time. Is there a restriction on time for an FO vs. the captain (i.e., does the captain require more time than the first officer)?
My first flight instructor was a graduate of E-R with a degree in “aviation management”. He was fortunate in that he got a job as a dispatcher trainee with UPS. He wanted to be a pilot for UPS, but for whatever reason was unable to get into a flying position there. He was lucky he had the desk job at UPS, because IMO the degree in aviation business is of little value outside of aviation. I’m sure E-R told him when he first enrolled there how great it was and what a “sure thing” becoming an airline pilot would be. Don’t believe what they say at face value, do your own research. E-R costs more than $50k a year without the flight training. Taking out student loans to finance such exhorbitant tuition should be a non-starter, IMO.
Criminal law can pay handsomely if one defends rich white collar criminals. The public defender defending destitute criminals who can’t afford a lawyer makes far less of course. I am certain Bernard Madoff’s attorneys got paid very well for example.
I can’t believe FAA would accept an EASA ATPL with 300 hours as the equivalent of a US ATP with 1500 hours required (actually, one can get an ATP with less than 1500 hours if one graduates from an approved aviation program in a college, but again, the aviation degree has little value outside the aviation field) so if you got the EASA ATPL and wanted to convert to an ATP in the US, you may have to get the additional flight time.
Best to you in your endeavors. I wish you luck. I don’t think the airline pilot route is easy, inexpensive, or a sure thing, regardless that airlines today may be doing better than they did say two decades ago.